Get ready to be your own boss: top business tips for freelancers
My first freelance job came while I was in college, in 1995. A friend told me that a local bookstore was looking for someone to The post Get ready to …
Building a custom Google Map
For about a year now I’ve had a Google map on HeroPress.com showing pins of where my contributors are from. I’ve been using Maps Builder Pro from WordImpress. It’s an …
Mobile theme roundup: Testing tools and mobile-friendly WordPress themes
As the modern web grows, more and more people access it on mobile or other small screen devices. We expect mobile sites to be full-featured, The post Mobile theme roundup: …
There is no “I” in freelancer
In 1998 I took a contract to build the backend of a site for a real estate agent using PHP. That evening I went home, The post There is no …
Including parent theme CSS
Have you ever opened the style.css file of a child theme and found something like this?
@import url("../make/style.css");
You don’t want that. @import has a negative impact on page load, …
Making WordPress faster
This is a story of implementing things I knew I should be doing, but didn’t QUITE realize the significance. Last year I did a talk at WordCamp Grand Rapids on …